ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:
A
Wordsworth
B
Shelley
C
Keats
D
None of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Lyrical Ballads, collection of poems, first published in 1798 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, the appearance of which is often designated by scholars as a signal of the beginning of English Romanticism.

Detailed explanation-2: -Scholars say that the Romantic Period began with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads (1798) by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was one of the first collections of poems that strayed from the more formal poetic diction of the Neoclassical Period.

Detailed explanation-3: -First publication and Lyrical Ballads The year 1793 saw the first publication of poems by Wordsworth, in the collections An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches.

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